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发帖数: 12010 | 1 York City received a glancing blow from the hurricane. Wind gusts up to 75 m
.p.h. blew throughout Manhattan causing the East River to flow three blocks
inland. The winds reportedly caused the Empire State Building to sway.
Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau Counties, located on the western end of Long
Island, were hammered with wind gusts in excess of 100 m.p.h. but escaped
the worst of the wind and storm surge due to being on the storm's weaker
west side.[2] Power was lost throughout the city.
Eastern Long Island experienced the worst of the storm. The Dune Road area
of Westhampton Beach was obliterated resulting in 29 deaths. A cinema at
Westhampton was also swept out to sea; about 20 people at a matinee, and the
theater — projectionist and all — landed two miles (3 km) into the
Atlantic and drowned.[15] There were 21 other deaths through the rest of the
east end of Long Island. The storm surge temporarily turned Montauk into an
island as it flooded across the South Fork at Napeague and obliterated the
tracks of the Long Island Rail Road. As a result of the hurricane the
Westhampton Beach School District changed its school's nickname from the
Green Wave to the Hurricanes.
The surge rearranged the sand at the Cedar Point Lighthouse so that the
island became connected to what is now Cedar Point County Park. The surging
water created the present-day Shinnecock Inlet by carving out a large
section of barrier island separating Shinnecock Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
The storm toppled the landmark steeple of the tallest building in Sag
Harbor, the Old Whaler's Church.[16] The steeple has not been rebuilt.
Wading River suffered substantial damage. |
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